Rachel Luddem
Legal Director
Rachel is a Legal Director within the Employment & Pensions division, specialising in healthcare since joining Capsticks in 2010.
Upon qualification in 2002, Rachel has worked for both claimant (unions) and respondent clients before joining Capsticks and so brings strategic insight from both sides for employer clients.
Experience
Rachel has significant litigation experience and specialises in complex discrimination and whistleblowing claims. Her advisory work includes supporting clients to manage disciplinary, capability and organisational change processes including any necessary advice with overlapping grievance complaints. Often these cases involve senior employees.
Rachel is a trusted adviser and client manager to healthcare and independent sector organisations, many of which she has supported for more than a decade. She also delivers practical training and legal updates.
Her NHS experience includes a secondment with an ambulance trust, where she supported the Chief People Officer on employee relations and presented strategic workforce insights to the board.
Drawing on her experience of defending high-profile, complex claims, Rachel helps clients manage legal risk while protecting their reputation.
Notable cases
- Moustache v Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust [2025] EWCA Civ 1857
- Shalaby v London North West Healthcare NHS Trust [2018] EWCA Civ 1323
- Balakumar v Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust [2018] UKEAT/0252/16/RN
- Mbubaegbu v Homerton University Hospitals NHS FT [2018] UKEAT/0218/17/JOJ & UKEAT/0306/17/JOJ]
- Brito-Babapulle v Ealing Hospital NHS Trust [2014] EWCA Civ 1626
- Barts Health NHS Trust v Kensington-Oloye [2014] UKEAT/0137/14/MC
Past Publications
Co-wrote a guide for the Law Society titled 'Disability Discrimination Act 1995 - An essential guide for solicitors', October 2004
Qualifications
- BA(Hons) Philosophy, Manchester
- CPE and LPC, College of Law
